Improvement in lamp-burners



G. CHINNOCK.

Lamp Burner.

Patented April 28, 1868.

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- TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

GEORGE GHINN'O-GK. or NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 77,254, dated April 28, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN ILAMPHBURNERS.

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Be it known that I, GEORGE GHINNOGK, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Lamp-Burners; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to, the accompanying drawings, making a portion of this specification, in whicl1 Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of a lamp-burner fitted with my attachment.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding, parts in both figures.

This invention consists in a novel arrangement and combination of a translucent annular rim or plate with the cone and perforated disk of a lamp-burner, whereby its construction is simplified, and better results are produced. I I i To enable others to understand the nature and construction of my invent'iomlwill proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A indicates the base of the burner, B the wi'elr-tuhe, and O the cone thereof, of any suitable construction, and supported over the wick-tube by braces, a. The perforated bottom-plate of the burner is shown at D, and has attached to it any suitable number of hdizontal radial arms, 6, which may he made of flat strips of sheet metal, and the outer ends of which are turned upward to form springs, a, which-serve? to retain the chimney in position, as presently hereinafter set forth.

Shown at E is an annular rim or plate of glass, or equivalent transparent material, and seated upon or conneeted with this rim is a translucent shell, A of somewhat tapering or conicalform, as represented more fully in fig. 1. The rim E is placed upon the radial arms b, with or without an annular space or air-passage, 11*, between it and the circumference of the perforated bottom-plate D of the burner, and'with its shell A* surroundingthe wick-tube and the echo. This being done, the lamp-chimney, of any appropriate form, is placed upon the rim E, or upon the flange of iJll'ZSllCll A", as shown in red outline in fig. 1, and is clasped and held in position thereon by the springs a, as just liereinbefore mentioned.

Inasmuch as the light from the flame of the burner may pass freely downward through the transparent rim E, it follows that the utility of the burncris materially increased, as compared with that resulting when the base of the burner is of anopaque' or non-transparent character, as in the ordinary manner. Furthermore, the shell A*, by deflecting toward the flame a suihcient proportion of the air which rises through the perforated bottom-plate of the burner, insures the most brilliant burning of the flame, at the same time that the transmission or radiation of. the light therefrom is not interfered with in the least. 7

' I do not claim broadly a translucent base to-a burner, as that has been used before; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In kerosene and like burners, the detachable annular transparent rim or plate E, arranged in relation to the cone G, perforated disk D, and transparent shell- A, substantially as herein shown and described.

GEORGE CHINNOCK.

' Witnesses:

J. W. Cooiuns, A. La Cnnnc. 

